Cranfield University will join 19 research partners spread through 12 countries to develop a first-of-a-kind plant which couples concentrated solar power (CSP) and desalination techniques. The 10M€ European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation programme will last 4 years. Innovative technologies related to both CSP and desalination will be designed to improve the efficiency […]
Solar Power And Desalination to Be Efficiently Linked For First Time in New Project
Cranfield University will join 19 research partners spread through 12 countries to develop a first-of-a-kind plant which couples concentrated solar power (CSP) and desalination techniques. The 10M€ European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation programme will last 4 years. Innovative technologies related to both CSP and desalination will be designed to improve the efficiency […]
UK: Shell to Install 800 EV Charging Points At Waitrose Stores By 2025
The extended partnership also foresees increasing the number of Shell forecourt shops that sell Waitrose products from 57 to 125 locations. Waitrose and Shell announced plans to grow their partnership by installing hundreds of electric vehicle charging points in the supermarket’s car parks and by more than doubling the number of Shell forecourt shops where […]
UK Needs 10 Times As Many EV Charge-Points By 2030 – Regulator
CMA concerned about choices of charge-points at motorways Recommends public body be tasked with monitoring EV sector Britain’s competition regulator on Friday laid out guidelines to ensure a robust electric vehicle (EV) charging network to aid the country’s net zero plans, as it also launched a probe into some charge-point operators on highways and motorways. […]
Avanti in Solar Energy Deal to Expand African Telecoms Coverage
UK based satellite company Avanti is partnering with Canadian solar energy specialist Clear Blue Technologies to roll out coverage in parts of Africa. Their partnership will help develop connectivity, particularly in remote areas not covered by telecoms operators, according to news agency Ecofin. The agency quoted Libby Barr (pictured), COO of Avanti: “With Clear Blue, […]
Batteries as an Infrastructure Asset Class: A New Paradigm
Battery storage is flexible, remarkable — and investable — but you need to know what you’re doing and know where the market opportunities and limits lie. Renewable and clean energy financier Laurent Segalen from Megawatt-X explains some of the things he’s seen as batteries have become an infrastructure asset in their own right. This is […]
National Grid Says UK Could Need 13 GW of Energy Storage By 2030 to Enable Net Zero Future
Energy storage will be a significant enabler of the renewable energy adoption required for the UK to meet net zero by 2050, National Grid ESO said. The electricity system operator (ESO) arm of National Grid in the UK has outlined four different pathways for the future of energy in the country in its Future Energy […]
Nissan Unveils Electric Vehicle Hub Worth £1 Billion in UK
Nissan EV36Zero is a flagship project that will aim to push Nissan’s drive towards carbon neutrality. Nissan says it will also invest up to £423 million to produce a new-generation all-electric vehicle in the UK Nissan recently unveiled Nissan EV36Zero, a flagship project worth £1 billion which will be an electric vehicle hub. The automaker […]
Tesla Boosts UK’s Electric Car Sales
San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned Tesla has delivered a lot of vehicles in the UK in June and that resulted in record electric vehicle sales in the market with an 11 per cent market share of the overall auto market. The UK has become a very important market for Tesla. In Q1 2021, Tesla delivered 7,304 […]
‘On Our Way to Gigawatts’: Shell Turns on Europe’s Largest Green Hydrogen Plant
Supermajor and partners say 10MW German deployment will be expanded tenfold Shell has started up what is claimed to be Europe’s largest green hydrogen electrolyser so far, as the Anglo-Dutch supermajor hailed a step on the road to gigawatt-scale deployments. The company began operation of the 10M-megawatt proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser at its Energy […]
